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People still use coal because it satisfies lots of needs at an affordable rate. Coal is primarily used for heating purposes, but can also be used to make plastics, steel, coke (a hard, dry substance containing carbon that's produced by heating bituminous coal to a very high temperature in the absence of air), and electricity purposes.

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